Home / Personal Injury / Roblox Lawsuit
You let them play a game made for children. It was rated for kids, marketed to parents, and every other family you know was on it too. Somebody used that to get to your child. Millions of parents made the same decision you did — and the question these lawsuits ask is not what you should have done. It is what the company promised parents, and whether it was true.
🔒 Encrypted & handled per our Privacy Policy
A lawsuit is not the urgent step. Safety is. Report to the NCMEC CyberTipline at 1-800-843-5678 or report.cybertip.org . It is the national clearinghouse for child exploitation reports, and it routes to law enforcement. If your child is in immediate danger, call 911.
For support for your child or your family, RAINN is free and confidential 24 hours a day at 1-800-656-4673 . Where you can, save messages, usernames, and screenshots before deleting anything — but your child’s safety comes first, always.
This is the one that keeps most families silent. Parents replay every decision and land on themselves.
Roblox is rated for children and marketed to parents on the strength of its safety systems. State attorneys general are now suing over whether those representations matched reality. Trusting a product marketed for your child is not negligence.
Families worry that without a report, nobody will believe them or take it seriously.
Chat logs, account records, screenshots, device history, school or counseling notes and the platform’s own internal reports can all support a claim. If contact is ongoing, reporting matters urgently for safety — but its absence does not defeat a claim.
The fear of a child being identified, at school or online, stops many families before they start.
Courts routinely permit children’s abuse claims to proceed by initials or pseudonym rather than full names. Ask the firm exactly how that would work in your court before you decide.
Protecting a child from re-traumatization matters more to most parents than any claim.
Nothing on this page asks your child anything. The first conversation is with you. Firms handling these cases work with child-trauma professionals and are experienced in keeping a child’s involvement as limited as the law allows.
— Compensation
No amount of money undoes what happened to your child. What a claim can do is pay for what they need now, and for what they will need for a long time.
Federal cases are consolidated as MDL 3166, In re: Roblox Corporation Child Sexual Exploitation and Assault Litigation, before Chief Judge Richard Seeborg in the Northern District of California. Around 170 families had cases pending as of July 2026, up from roughly 130 in March. California state cases were consolidated in Los Angeles in April 2026. Attorneys general in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Utah and Oklahoma have filed suit or opened investigations, and Los Angeles County has sued as well. Discord is a co-defendant in several cases.
There is no settlement, no fund and no payouts. A settlement master has been appointed to oversee negotiations, but that appointment does not mean talks are underway. The cases are in discovery, where families are seeking internal records on prior reports, moderation staffing, and what the company spent on safety.
Federal cases are consolidated as MDL 3166, In re: Roblox Corporation Child Sexual Exploitation and Assault Litigation, before Chief Judge Richard Seeborg in the Northern District of California. Around 170 families had cases pending as of July 2026, up from roughly 130 in March. California state cases were consolidated in Los Angeles in April 2026. Attorneys general in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa, Nebraska, Arkansas, Utah and Oklahoma have filed suit or opened investigations, and Los Angeles County has sued as well. Discord is a co-defendant in several cases.
There is no settlement, no fund and no payouts. A settlement master has been appointed to oversee negotiations, but that appointment does not mean talks are underway. The cases are in discovery, where families are seeking internal records on prior reports, moderation staffing, and what the company spent on safety.
— What happens next
Nothing happens that you do not agree to, and your child is not part of this first step.
Your child’s age, which platforms, roughly when, and your state. Not what happened. Two minutes, free, no obligation.
Usually within a day. The conversation is with you as the parent. You decide what to share and when, and you can stop at any point.
Account and chat records, platform reports, device data, counseling and school records. Much of the evidence sits with the platform and is obtained through the litigation, not from your child’s memory.
Filed under initials where the court allows, in the MDL or an appropriate state court. Any settlement for a child requires court approval, which exists to protect them.
That is a completely reasonable place to be. A free, confidential conversation gives you information without committing you to a single thing.
Participating firms take these cases on contingency. The fee is a percentage of any recovery. If there is no recovery, no attorney fee is owed.
No retainer. No hourly billing. No bill arriving while you are paying for your child’s therapy. Cost should never decide whether a family gets advice.
Fee arrangements are set by the law firm you sign with, not by Direct2Attorney, and vary between firms and states. Settlements on behalf of a minor generally require court approval and may be placed in a protected account until the child reaches adulthood. Read the agreement and ask questions before signing.
⚖️
What Direct2Attorney is
What Direct2Attorney is not
— Filing deadlines
Deadlines for sexual assault claims are not the same as ordinary injury deadlines, and they have changed a great deal. Many states have lengthened or removed them entirely, and several have opened revival windows that let older claims be filed for a limited period. California opened a two-year revival window for adult sexual assault claims that runs through the end of 2027.
Select your state
Several states have temporarily reopened claims that were previously too late. These windows open and close on fixed dates, so a claim that was barred last year may not be barred now — and may be barred again later
Because these rules have moved so much in recent years, the answer people assume is often wrong in both directions. It costs nothing to have someone check the state where it happened.
This is general information, not legal advice, and it is not a calculation of your deadline. Filing deadlines are set by state law, differ by the type of claim, change when legislatures amend them, and can be shortened or extended by facts specific to your situation. Nothing on this page tells you whether your claim is timely. Only an attorney licensed in your state can determine the deadline that applies to you. If a deadline passes, a claim is usually barred permanently regardless of its merits, so the safer course is always to ask early.
Most people guess, and a lot of them guess wrong in the direction that costs them. Finding out takes about two minutes and costs nothing.
A parent or legal guardian generally brings the claim on behalf of a child who was harmed. Young adults who were targeted as minors can often bring a claim themselves. Participating law firms are reviewing situations where a child used Roblox, was contacted by someone who turned out to be an adult, and was harmed as a result, whether that harm happened online, moved to another app, or led to contact in person.
No. Roblox is marketed as a platform for children, rated for young players, and promoted to parents as safe. You did what millions of parents did. The lawsuits are not about parental supervision. They are about whether a company that invited children in built the protections it told parents it had built. Nothing about this is a failure of your parenting.
That does not close the door. Many families never report, for reasons that are entirely understandable. A claim can be supported by chat logs, account records, screenshots, device history, school or counseling records, or the platform’s own internal reports. If the abuse is ongoing or the person is still in contact with your child, reporting matters urgently for your child’s safety, separate from any lawsuit.
Courts routinely allow claims involving children and sexual abuse to be filed using initials or a pseudonym rather than a full name. Whether that is permitted is decided case by case under the law of the relevant court, so ask the law firm directly how it would work for your family before deciding anything.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act generally shields online platforms from liability for content posted by their users. Roblox is expected to argue it applies here. Families argue these claims are about the platform’s own design and safety choices rather than about user content, which is a different question. This is one of the central legal fights in the litigation and it has not been resolved. An adverse ruling could significantly narrow these cases.
No. There is no settlement, no settlement fund and no payouts. The court has appointed a settlement master, which is a person assigned to oversee any negotiations, but appointing one does not mean talks are underway or that resolution is close. The cases are in discovery. Anyone telling you money is coming soon is not being straight with you.
Nothing. The review is free and confidential with no obligation. If a participating law firm takes the case, it will normally work on contingency, meaning the fee comes out of a recovery and no attorney fee is owed if there is no recovery. Settlements involving a child generally require court approval.
Ask it on the call. The review is free, and there is no obligation to move forward.
— News & updates
Twelve-year-old Maya stopped sleeping, stopped smiling, and spent nearly every waking hour logged into Roblox—until her parents found disturbing new
In August 2025, Roblox Corporation is under intense scrutiny as multiple lawsuits emerge nationwide. Parents, advocacy groups, and legal experts
A Parent’s Guide to the Roblox Lawsuit Chaos – Stories, Facts, and Steps to Take Hey parents! Roblox is a
